The Marina Star Hotel has become overrun with zombies, legions of the undead have spilled into the streets, devouring everyone in sight. The picturesque island resort town has descended into chaos. U.S. Special Forces are sent in to squash the threat and is quickly overwhelmed. In desperation, they turn to Medical Examiner, Benjamin Hawk, MD, or, OHawkO to his friends. His most popular lecture, OThe Neuropathology of ZombiesO, spread throughout the Internet, catching the attention of the U.S. Government. The U.S. military brings Hawk to the island to help end the zombie plague. Being the worldOs only authority on the topic, Hawk uses his skills as a forensic pathologist and a neuropathologist to carry out autopsies on the zombies, leading him on an electrifying and dark journey to the true origins of the zombification process. Hawk uses his scientific mind to battle the zombie hordes while having many close encounters of the dead, as he nearly becomes one of the undead.